The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-06-02
Third Bnptist Union.

On Saturday. the 28th instant, at Salem
Church the Baptist Union Of the Third
District adopted unanimously the follow
inp preamble and resolutions BY an en-
thusiastic and rising vote: -,
Whereas, the Legislature at its last
session passed an Act submitting the
question of license or no license for the
sale of spirituous liquors to the voters OF
Anderson and Laurens Counties, thereby
empowering the individual voters to de-
eide this question for themselves, and
majority of them to determine the result,
thus making such voters responsible be-
fore God and men for the conclusion they
NAV reach; and, whereas, the traffic in
spirituous liquors has been for centuries
the bane of the social and the moral
world, wrecking thousands OF human
souls destroying the minds and bodies OF
countless human beings, b!lghtlng the
peace of happy homes and bringing Want,
misery, woe and crime in their most
terri bic forms in our midst and, where.
as. the State no longer takes the response
bility of perpetuating this evil, but places
the moral aud legal responsibility Tor
the traffic, ifit is continued, directly upon
the voters of these counties; and whereas,
the Church of Christ was instituted to be
the light of the world, leading men in all
sniritual and moral reforms, under all
circumstances and at ali times, and to this
end il has in ages past contended with the
nowers of State to force them to do the
ripht. even at the cost of martyrdom of
the fathers of the Church, and is, Of course,
in duty to it's Great Head bound to adj
vance and aid especially such moral re-
forIas as the State may permit; therefore
be it
list. Resolued, That it is the sense of the
Baptists of the Third Union District that it
is tho duty of Christians everywhere to
labor 20 drive the blighting curse of in-
Temperance from our world, and especi.
allv is it their duty where the State, as in
this county, puts the responsibility for
the traffic in liquor directly upon the
voters. whereby every voter becomes
morally responsible before God. not only
for the ballot he shall cast, hut also for the
exercise of the influence he may possess
among men, so that he should vote and
labor as be prays.
End. That we urge our pastors and
Church members to labor and pray tor
the triumph of prohibition as one OF the
greatest moral reforms Of the present age,
and means whereby men may be eleva-
ted and advanced morally, socially, phys
ically and financially.
3rd. That we urge philanthropists and On
intelligent public to cid US in driving
from our land the blighting curse of the
liquor traffic, whicb!is destroying SO much
of the pure home life of our land, inflict-
ing its evil touch not only upon those it
ensnares but also upon the helpless wo-
men and innocent children of our land,
bringing want where there should be
plenty, Strife where there should be happy
pesce. crime where there should be useful
citizenship, and sin and death where there
should be the light of christian joy and
the cheering hope of immortal rest.
4th. That the County papers and the
Baptist Courier be requested to publish
this preamble and these resolutions.
G. O.. BURRIss, Clerk.